Post by Nam on Feb 10, 2012 0:31:13 GMT
When I think about Underground, I think about how people condemn it for how childish it is, ignoring that that is Sonic's target audience. While the music isn't epic to most adults, to a child it's likely wondrous and even teaches them some values.
I remember not liking Sonic Underground even as a kid. If I could I'd go back and high-five myself
Underground was really poor at educating us, I thought. It was so... in-your-face with its messages, and they were conveyed with such poorly-composed songs that I just remember watching it for the first time down in London, after about a week of excitement, and then thinking "well that wasn't worth it". Theme song was rad though.
Underground's theme song was probably the only good song out of that series. Though that's not saying a lot really.
I never liked SU. As a kid I was always asking "Who on Earth are all these characters? Sonia, Manic, the queen, the two assistants Robotnik had, where's Tails? Knuckles is there, where the [censored]'s Tails? I had the exact same problem with SatAm, not to mention the episodes of AoStH with Momma Robotnik. Even though logically, there must be a Momma Robotnik, those sort of characters made for the show really annoyed me as a kid, because they weren't from the games. I mean Scratch & Grounder I could accept, as they were Robotnik's robots. Mostly because I couldn't accept different continuities then. In my head I thought that only the games characters should appear in the comic and cartoons, nobody else.
Funny thing about SU at least is it does the story of Perfect Chaos, before Sonic Adventure was out, though using the shapeshifter Dingo as the thing that takes the Chaos Emerald power. I don't remember all the details, but they won with the power of rock. Well, what passed for rock on that show...